Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone… unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t…

  • tony@feed.sokolik.info
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    1 year ago

    THIS!

    Managing mail servers is the worst. If you want your own email just go register email on something like Zoho. It’s cheap and the couple $$ you spend on it is money well spent to prevent the time and aggravation you’ll have running your own server.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, as someone who hosts a private email server, don’t do it. I don’t use my mail server for anything remotely important, because I don’t have enough monitoring in place to be sure it’s working 100% of the time. Silently dropping emails is a huge deal, especially if your monitoring is email-based… It’s 100% worth it paying for email hosting if you want to set up custom domains and mailboxes.

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        1 year ago

        Incoming mail is the problem? What is the problem? Is it not in a data center? Or is it that you do not have at least two incoming smtp servers so the other can take over when one is down?

        Just curious the root cause of the problem as it is not one I would expect. I found email fairly easy to setup on my VPS, but have not really used it much except for traffic related to my VPS.